Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

ER-mitochondria contacts promote mtDNA nucleoids active transportation via mitochondrial dynamic tubulation

  • Jinshan Qin,
  • Yuting Guo,
  • Boxin Xue,
  • Peng Shi,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Qian Peter Su,
  • Huiwen Hao,
  • Shujuan Zhao,
  • Congying Wu,
  • Li Yu,
  • Dong Li,
  • Yujie Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18202-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Mitochondrial DNA is found in nucleoids, which are distributed throughout the mitochondrial network and are thought to be passively distributed. Here, the authors show that mitochondrial dynamic tubulation at ER-mitochondria contact sites actively transports nucleoids.